ksh named parameter, question

[Richard Rosenthal]

    Can someone explain this behavior in ksh on both B4.3 and SysV?

    $ typeset TMOUT
    integer TMOUT
    $ print $TMOUT
    0
    $ typeset TMOUT=
    $ print $TMOUT
    92328
    $ typeset TMOUT=0
    $ print $TMOUT
    0

    On another machine TMOUT magically becomes 4 instead of 92328
    and that is a real problem!  Then I constantly get 60 second
    timeout warnings.

    Thanks.

    -Rich

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